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Single Idea 8533
[filed under theme 19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
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Full Idea
Must there not be something quite specific about the thing which allows, indeed ensures, that predicates like 'underneath' and 'hot' apply? The predicates require ontological correlates.
Gist of Idea
Predicates need ontological correlates to ensure that they apply
Source
David M. Armstrong (Properties [1992], §1)
Book Ref
'Properties', ed/tr. Mellor,D.H. /Oliver,A [OUP 1997], p.164
A Reaction
An interesting proposal, that in addition to making use of predicates, we should 'ensure that they apply'. Sounds verificationist. Obvious problem cases would be speculative, controversial or metaphorical predicates. "He's beneath contempt".
The
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[terms attributing characteristics to things]:
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12349
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Only what can be said of many things is a predicable
[Aristotle, by Wedin]
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11837
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Some predicates signify qualification of a substance, others the substance itself
[Aristotle]
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5107
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Predicates are substance, quality, place, relation, quantity and action or affection
[Aristotle]
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20786
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Predicates are incomplete 'lekta'
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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15383
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Nothing external can truly be predicated of an object
[Abelard, by Panaccio]
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11206
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The mind constructs complete attributions, based on the unified elements of the real world
[Aquinas]
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9022
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Russell uses 'propositional function' to refer to both predicates and to attributes
[Quine on Russell]
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16932
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Projectible predicates can be universalised about the kind to which they refer
[Quine]
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19159
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Quine relates predicates to their objects, by being 'true of' them
[Quine, by Davidson]
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9281
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The idea of a predicate matches a range of things to which it can be applied
[Strawson,P]
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8533
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Predicates need ontological correlates to ensure that they apply
[Armstrong]
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4035
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There must be some explanation of why certain predicates are applicable to certain objects
[Armstrong]
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5457
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Predicates assert properties, values, denials, relations, conventions, existence and fabrications
[Ellis, by PG]
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19156
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Modern predicates have 'places', and are sentences with singular terms deleted from the places
[Davidson]
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19176
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The concept of truth can explain predication
[Davidson]
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6995
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Successful predication supervenes on nature
[Jackson]
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4572
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If predicates name things, that reduces every sentence to a mere list of names
[Cooper,DE]
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13363
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A (modern) predicate is the result of leaving a gap for the name in a sentence
[Bostock]
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17857
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We can accept Frege's idea of object without assuming that predicates have a reference
[Wright,C]
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18536
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The subject-predicate form reflects reality
[Heil]
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10401
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The F and G of logic cover a huge range of natural language combinations
[Swoyer]
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8471
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Three ways for 'Socrates is human' to be true are nominalist, platonist, or Montague's way
[Orenstein]
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21658
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Properties can be expressed in a language despite the absence of a single word for them
[Hofweber]
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21659
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'Being taller than this' is a predicate which can express many different properties
[Hofweber]
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10634
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Predicates are 'distributive' or 'non-distributive'; do individuals do what the group does?
[Linnebo]
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